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Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. ♦ The Bank of Now Zealand has, it is reported, had a very good year, the profits having been even greater than during the pievious twelve months. The bunk will not only be ablo to meet all the statutory disbursement*, including the £50,000 to the Assets Board, butwill bo able to pay over a further sum of £100,000 to the Board towards meeting any deficiencies that may arise on tho realisation of estates, as well as a 5 per cent, dividend to the shareholders. The Piemier hng received the following cable from the Agent4Jenoral : — "The War Oflice i 9 calling for tenders for canned compressed beef and mutton. Delivery of tenders to be made on 26th May. Delivery of meat, half in June and half in October at Woolwich. At the request of the War Office I am sending detailed Rpucitications. I represented that it was hardly possible that tenders could bo forwarded in sufficient time, but the War Oflice cannot grant an extension." The Agent-General has informed the Piomier that he has been in communication vilh the Hon. Mr. Hanbury, President of the British Board of Agricul* ture, in reference to milk-blended butter. ! Air. Hanbury has expressed himself ii» sympathy with merchants and producers in Mew Zealand who are strongly opposed to the practice of selling nnik-blended buttor as puro butter, and has intimated | that he proposes to take action in the matter. The Postal Department hag been advised that the s.s. Sierra, with British mails to 29th March, left San l<rancisco on tho 10th iust., time-tuble date. The intimation is conveyed to South British Insurance shareholders that the half year's diyidend is now available. The members of the Victorian Labour Commission left for Wanganui by the first train this morning. The party, which includes a number of ladies, has arranged to spend to-morrow on the Wanganui River. On Monday tho Commissioners will leave for Auckland, "where they will conclude the taking of evidence. They will visit Rotorua before returning to Australia. A cold snap came over the city and district last night, and tlxis ( morning the air was again very keen. Heavy rain also fell during the -night, but the fall seems . to have been purely local. The shade temperatures in the four centres this morning were— At Auckland 63deg., Wellington 53deg., Ohristchurcb. 48deg., and Dunedin 52deg. An export duty on kauri timber has been imposed by an Order-in-Council just passed. The schedule is as follows:— Logs, round, 3s per 100 superficial feet ; logs cut in half, 3s per 100 ft; logs squared with axe or saw, lOin by lOin or its equivalent or over, 3s per 100 f t; flitohes' exceeding 30in in width and 9in in thicmiess, 2s per 100 ft. The Or- • dor-in-Council also imposes the following oxport duties on kauri timber logs round, logs cut in half, logs squared with axe or saw, 3s per 100 superficial feet. Miss M. Parker, who is to go to South Africa as one of the teachers for the Boer concentration camps, is a daughter of Mr. Robert Parker, of Wellington, and was at one time in the service of the Wellington Board of Education. The other successful Wellington candidate, Miss D. Webb, was State school teacher in Hawkes Bay for some years, but i» at present on the nursing staff of Wellington Hospital. Mr. Herbert Radcliffe, of the Mines Department, left for the West Coast today in connection with the settlement of a difficulty between the property owners and raining companies as to the damage done to the banks of the Grey River by gold dredging operations. It is said, remarked Mr. Seddon to the workers last night, that the attitude of New Zealand in regard to the war was only approved by a few. Where, he asked (and his voice rose to a patriotic pitch), where do the young men come from who havo fought for the colony in South Africa? "From Ireland," said a quiet voice at the back of the hall, and the assemblage roared with laughter. Don't speculate t When you want good butter you wont Black Swan Butter. See that you get it.— Adv*